Dan,

"What excuse did you give last time, so you could vote by mail?"

Where did you get the idea I vote by mail?

Dan,

"Making it harder for the legal voter to cast her or his legal vote is, BY DEFINITION, voter suppression."

Some states have to make accommodations because people live far from polling stations. Others live nearby.

Everyone in a locality has the same requirements they've had every four years.

Yet ever since 2020, the argument seems to be that unless people automatically receive a mailed ballot, their vote is being suppressed.

As I've posted extensively, I've changed my tune. I used to favor banning mailed ballots except for traditional absentee voting. Now I believe ballots should not be mailed automatically, but everyone should be able to request one through the same process used for absentee ballots.

They can still vote from their sofa, but they'll have to at least put in the effort to request a ballot. The information on their request would be checked against their voter registration record, and their eligibility would be verified before the ballot is mailed. If they can't fulfil these basic requirements, they don't get to vote.

Is that too much to ask?

Eff,

"Because gun ownership is a RIGHT."

Not everyone is permitted to own a gun.

And even those who are permitted still have to meet certain legal requirements.

Voting is also a right, but most states still require you to register and follow the rules for voting.

Yet somehow, if someone can't vote from their sofa, we're told they're being disenfranchised.

That's BS.

Truth,

"To require one is to disengranchise a LOT of people"

That's a load of bs.

Look up the meaning of disenfranchise.

No one is denying anyone the right to vote.

They have the same right to vote as anyone else and must fulfil the same requirements as everyone else.

Why do some people have to be pandered to like a child all their life?

Grow up or at least find someone to help you.

Truth,

It's called growing up.

Unfortunately, a lot of people never do, usually because they were never expected to.

If you want to vote, you'll have to work through the system like everyone else.

Who ever said it was the government's job to treat grown adults like helpless children?

Alex,

"6 month old cottage cheese is more sentient than bill."

But you just watch happens at some point in the future.

This 6 month old cottage cheese will watch the hammer brought down on inadequately verification of mail-in voting.

Doc,

If you're a good little Democrat, you're supposed to be complaining that Trump is making things harder for the poor immigrants who want to be in America.

That goes hand in hand with your acknowledgment that illegal border crossings are lower under Trump.

I mean....right?

Redial,

Politicians work hard to appear honest. That's part of winning people's trust.

Whether or not we believe they're honest depends on how we judge their actions and how our own biases influence our judgment.

I don't expect to get the full picture from politicians.

Withholding and controlling information is a form of power.

Dan,

No voting method meets everyone's needs perfectly.

By "everyone's needs," I don't mean only the voter's convenience.

The public also needs a system that is secure, accurate, and trustworthy.

A good voting system has to address all of those needs.

Zed,

"Why threaten an old friend at all?"

My personal opinion is that Trump plays head games to keep people off balance. It's hard to know where you stand with him or what he actually means.

It strikes me as a Machiavellian tactic. Fairly manipulative. You can't always take what he says at face value.

I've worked with people like that. Sometimes they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. That doesn't mean they're all bad, but it makes them difficult to read or trust.

I'm not convinced the people Trump threatened actually believed they might be invaded.

But recognizing a possible tactic doesn't mean I think it worked or was wise.

Doc,

I'm not trying to build a "case".

Illegal crossings are down under Trump.

Zed,

Who says Trump's threats over Greenland had anything to do with this agreement anyway?

Personally, I never got the impression he was actually going to use force to take Greenland.

To me, it was just his usual midnight madness and posting.

Corky,

"BJ is just sad that the Hostile Takeover didn't werk."

Sure..right...I wanted to invade Greenland.

Dan,

"Since Bill can't ever find actual voter fraud by illegals, he's clearly referring to suppressing LEGAL voters."

If a state offers early voting, I don't see that as voter suppression at all.

Unless someone is immobile or otherwise physically unable to get to the polls, they have time to arrange transportation and vote.

Calling that "suppression" is illogical.

Sent,

"You're admitting that someone you hate owns and controls your behavior"

When you responded to Zed with that quote, and then said Zed and I are similar, did you mean that someone I hate controls me?

I really don't have a lot of "hate" in me, and I'm not compelled to be like anyone I know.

One thing I do think I have in common with Trump is that he doesn't spend his life stepping into other people's footprints. He makes his own way.

And so do I, and always have.

Mostly because I've known very few people whose lives I would want to emulate.

Doc,

"You appear to be okay with that data"

Actually, it doesn't really matter whether I'm okay with it or not. I'm not a statistician writing a paper that requires every number to be heavily scrutinized.

What I do know is that Trump is doing a lot more to address illegal immigration than Biden did.

To me, the exact numbers aren't the main point.

The main point is that Trump is addressing the problem in a way it wasn't being addressed before.

But please do tell me your opinion about those numbers.

Doc,

Sent,

"Aggressive Tactics Slowed Things Down"

Trump has only been in office a little under two years.

If you're referring to Trump's "aggressive tactics," just how much faster do you think this could have happened?

And in the end, does it really matter?

Trump got it done.

Could you imagine Harris pulling this off any faster or ever?

Like it or not, Trump's techniques for dealing with people and other countries will be studied for years.

Biden and Obama?

I think history will end up treating them as footnotes in the Trump era.

Snoofy,

From what I can find, people coming over the border and getting away dropped anywhere from 80 to 90% from Biden.

That is significant.

Legal,

I might be -------, but I don't drool and I'm no imbecile.

Clown,

"Just another sad day for Bill."

I don't know how you came to that conclusion.

I have absolutely NO voter's remorse over voting for Trump.

Even if Congress goes completely Democrat this election, Trump still accomplished more in two years than Biden or Obama did in four.

I'm very satisfied with my vote.

If Democrats get Congress, they'll spend 2 years just opposing Trump regardless what it is.

Lamp,

"When this could have been done from the start"

Obama and Biden both had years to pursue a major expansion of the US military presence in Greenland. They maintained the existing base and defense relationship, but neither negotiated anything comparable to this agreement.

So if it really could have been done from the start, why wasn't it?

I think it took a real leader willing to push for it and get it done.

Zed,

Why do you hate America?

Greenland was an excellent deal.

Zed,

"Planet of the Apes and its a madhouse."

hmmm....exactly.

Zed,

Trump closed the southern border

Trump is protecting US from being attacked from the North.

Now he needs to fix the voting problem so that it's accurate.